(Sneeze!)
(Grab for some more tissues.)
(Sneeze again.)
(Cough [but not the really bad
kind, just a scrapey cough].)
(Cough again.)
(Snort.)
(Spoon some more melting
sherbet.)
(Sneeze into the sherbet
box [okay because author
is single - thank the Lord].)
"Well, why don't You
DO SOMETHING?"

[PATIENT GAZE.]
"And, what is that,
My precious."

"First of all;
how come I'm 52 and 1/2,
and still getting COLDS?
Shouldn't I have gone
through all the COLD VIRUSES,
by NOW?"

"No,
Mein kinder**."

"Why NOT?"

"Cuz."

"What kind'a ANSWER
is THAT?"

[PATIENT SIGH.]
[LISTEN TO A BEAUTIFUL
SOLO BEING SUNG IN THE
SAME EVENING CHURCH
SERVICE.]
[GAZE BACK AT CRANKY,
SNEEZY CHILD ON THE OTHER
SIDE OF TOWN.]
[REMEMBER HER CRANKY
ANCESTORS WHILE WANDERING
AROUND THE DESERT BETWEEN
CANA AND EGYPT.]
"I love you,
My child."

[GENTLE NOD.]
[TENDER VOICE.]
"That's what's important,
child.
That is what is most
important."
************************
And there was a
woman
who had had a flow
of blood for twelve years,
and who
had suffered much
under
many
physicians,
and had spent
all that she had,
and was no better
but rather
grew worse.
[Mark 5:25-26]
___________________
*Author knows about the
tea-drinking, when one has
a headcold; but, all it does
is make her run to the
bathroom. Even,
the herbal stuff.
**Rhymes with 'in'.
To say it with a
Yiddish accent, hold
your nose, and then
say it.
Author keeps forgetting
that most folk reading
this stuff, weren't raised
with Yiddish.

If you died today, are you absolutely certain that you would go to heaven? You can be! TRUST JESUS NOW

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